FAO Social Protection Framework
Promoting Rural Development for all
Introduction
The 2030 Agenda identifies poverty eradication as one the greatest global challenges facing the world today and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development. Despite efforts to combat both poverty and hunger, the overall numbers remain high. Almost one billion people still live in extreme poverty, and 793 million are estimated to be chronically undernourished (FAO, IFAD and WFP, 2015a). In addition, difference across regions and within national contexts with regards to income and opportunities undermine poverty reduction efforts and stretch capacities to create and maintain livelihoods.
Social protection is a specific target of the 2030 Agenda, under the sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1 (Poverty Eradication), as well as seen as a key strategy to achieve other related goals, such as end hunger, achieve food security and improve nutrition, decent employment, gender equality and reducing overall inequalities, and promote sustainable agriculture among other. The Agenda also calls for a new framework for action in terms of agricultural structural transformation.
A vibrant rural sector requires supporting enhanced productive and development of markets, but also increased prioritization to supporting small rural family farmers, resilience building, and enhancing the economic and productive capacity of the rural poor. Social protection is now being recognized as an integral component of effective humanitarian response and resilience building efforts.
Social protection is not new to FAO. The Organization has engaged in rural and agricultural development work that has been shown to serve socially protective functions. It has also undertaken emergency and disaster risk reduction with instruments similar to those that are used in social protection. However, social protection is now framed as a corporate priority, contributing to realizing FAO core mandate as stipulated by the FAO Council in December 2013 (FAO, 2013).
Contents
1 - FAO Social Protection Definition, vision and Mission
2 – Rationale for FAO Engagement in Social Protection
3 – FAO Guiding Principles for Social Protection
4 – Translating Principles into Programmatic work
5 – Key Strategies for Engagement
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